BASIC PROCESSING UNIT OF CHINESE CHARACTER RECOGNITION:EVIDENCE FROM STROKE NUMBER EFFECT AND RADICAL NUMBER EFFECT
汉字加工的基本单元:来自笔画数效应和部件数效应的证据

Both naming task and character decision task were used to investigate the stroke number effect and radical number effect in the processing of Chinese characters.Results indicated that 1) a character with fewer strokes is accessed faster than a character with more strokes when their radical numbers were matched;2) there is no significant interaction between stroke number and character frequency;3) radical number effect only existed in low frequency characters;4) processing of a character included three levels,namely stroke,radical,and character;and 5) processing time of a character is affected by the stroke numbers per radical and the radical number.